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Download full textHouse, Ann; Boyce, Jared; Wang, Sam; Means, Barbara; Peters Hinton, Vanessa; Wetzel, Tallie – Online Submission, 2018
Purpose: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation launched the Next Generation Courseware Challenge (NGCC) in 2014 to address the limited availability of affordable, high-quality adaptive courseware to postsecondary students. SRI International was retained to evaluate the NGCC initiative as a whole and to conduct impact studies for the NGCC…
Descriptors: Courseware, College Students, Academic Achievement, Computer Uses in Education
Means, Barbara; And Others – Phi Delta Kappan, 1995
Technology is no "silver bullet" for transforming education. Observations in nine technology-using schools suggest that for technology to serve reform purposes, it must be tied to a coherent, schoolwide instructional agenda. Reform-minded schools should articulate their mission and restructure activities around student needs and…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education, School Restructuring
Peer reviewedMeans, Barbara – Educational Leadership, 2001
Despite countless networking and interactive possibilities, the most commonly assigned use of classroom technology during 1997-98 was word processing, followed by Internet research and information gathering. Schools' reliance on general-purpose computing devices will eventually yield to lower cost, hand-held, and networked devices. (Contains 10…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Computer Uses in Education, Data Collection, Educational Benefits
